Picked up Battlegrounds at the urging of some of my friends. Game is tense as fuck, especially if you make it to the end.
For those unfamiliar, it's based on the film Battle Royale. You and 99 other players parachute onto a deserted island filled with various weapons, accessories (scopes, silencers, etc.), and armor/clothing. The island is massive, but as you play the area of play shrinks at periodic intervals, with an electric field that will quickly kill you enforcing it. Naturally, this funnels surviving players into each other and forces you to keep moving, which means camping tends to be, at best, a short-term strategy. You die, you're done.
You can play the game solo, in duos, or in squads of three or four. I've spent my entire time doing squad mode and it's a ton of fun. Once you get down to the end, it gets pretty crazy. In one game, I was one of the last three players alive, my entire squad was dead, and I had to move up a tree-covered hill to avoid getting fried by lightning. At that point, I'd killed four or five people in a short amount of time and almost died half a dozen times, taking cover and using medkits (which takes ten tense seconds where you can't move or aim) to restore my health. I died moving up the hill (survived longer than one of the guys and finished second, so not too shabby), but it was still a lot of fun and my heart was fucking pounding as the game ended. Not a lot of games can do that to you.
If any of you have ever played DayZ, the game is very similar as far as gameplay goes, although I find the shooting to be a lot more responsive in Battlegrounds. That was always a big issue for me in DayZ. I felt like I was always fighting the controls, and aiming/shooting were just godawful. Here it's solid. Movement is clunky, but the game is in pre-release mode, so that could very well be tightened over time.
Still, there's nothing like when you have to run across an open field terrified the entire time that someone is going to open fire and drop you. Or when you open your inventory to add attachments to your weapons knowing that you're totally vulnerable.